Rudolf Burger
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Rudolf Burger (8 December 1938 – 19 April 2021) was an Austrian
Life and career
Burger was born in
After working at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Condensed Matter Physics in Vienna, Burger switched to the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt. There he was part of the team for research plannings. He also joined the Planning Commission of Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Bonn.
From 1973 to 1990 Burger headed the department for
Since the 1980s Burger initiated or participated in several intellectual and political discussions in Austria. His essays are published in the daily newspaper Die Presse, in the weekly profil, as well as in intellectual magazines like FORVM, Leviathan or Merkur.
Burger died on 18 April 2021, aged 82.[1]
Status
Burger is well appreciated for his elegant style as an essayist and his avid love for intellectual criticism. His cynicism stirred some controversies, starting in 1990, when he opened the Günther Anders symposium of the city of Vienna by speaking of moralistic extortion, comparing Anders and Heidegger, equating their philosophies, and finally stating:
Though - as a biological species - the human is no value on itself, but rather - after the death of God - just a fact. It depends always only on the single being and the structure of the relations with those we live with, we love, we hate. And this surrounding is limited, also in the shadow of the bomb.
— Rudolf Burger, Opening Speech at the Günther Anders Symposium[2]
Philosopher
Book publications
- (ed., with Michael Benedikt): Die Krise der Phänomenologie und Pragmatik des Wissenschaftsfortschritts. Wien 1986
- Vermessungen. Essays zur Destruktion der Geschichte. Sonderzahl, Wien 1989, ISBN 3-85449-017-8.
- In der Zwischenzeit. Adnoten zu Politik und Philosophie. Springer, Wien und New York 1996, ISBN 3-211-82782-X.
- Ptolemäische Vermutungen. Aufzeichnungen über die Bahn der Sitten. Zu Klampen, Lüneburg 2001, ISBN 3-934920-06-3.
- Kleine Geschichte der Vergangenheit. Eine pyrrhonische Skizze der historischen Vernunft. Styria, Wien 2004, ISBN 3-222-13149-X.
- Re-Theologisierung der Politik? Wertedebatten und Mahnreden. Zu Klampen, Springe 2005, ISBN 3-934920-56-X.
- Im Namen der Geschichte. Vom Mißbrauch der historischen Vernunft. Zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-86674-015-0.
- Jenseits der Linie. Ausgewählte philosophische Erzählungen. Sonderzahl-Verlag, Wien 2008, ISBN 978-3-85449-304-4.
- Das Elend des Kulturalismus. Antihumanistische Betrachtungen. Zu Klampen, Springe 2011, ISBN 978-3-86674-147-8.
External links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Burger in the German National Library catalogue
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References
- ^ Philosoph Rudolf Burger gestorben (in German)
- ^ Rudolf Burger: Die Philosophie des Aufschubs, in: FORVM, 444, V. XXXVII, December 15, 1990, 16-19
- ^ Konrad Paul Liessmann: Der Aufschub der Philosophie, in: FORVM, 444, V. XXXVII, 15 December 1990, 19-22
- ^ profil, 20 August 1992
- ^ Rudolf Burger: Austromanie oder Der antifaschistische Karneval, in: Merkur 5/2000.
- ^ Rudolf Burger: Die Irrtümer der Gedenkpolitik. Ein Plädoyer für das Vergessen, in: Europäische Rundschau, 2/2001, 3-13
- ^ [1] Formen des Vergessens: Von der Leugnung über die Relativierung zur Desavouierung